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I spoke to Slowanderer, and he will have a stove with him, so we should be set. He very well may already be at the campground by now. MrsMustardman and I plan to leave here around 2:00-3:00, and arrive at Burning Bear around 4-5:00

Just a quick teaser before I hop in the shower and start cleaning up some of my gear - we had a heck of a weekend, and a lot of great friends were made. This might be the largest Colorado hang we've had yet. I counted 11 hammocks on Friday night, and I believe two left Saturday morning, to be replaced by four more by Saturday night, putting the total hammock count for Saturday at 13. That might be a record for us.

Oh, and that many people showing up? Yeah, they camped in these kinds of temperatures....

Thanks so much for putting this together, guys. Hannah and I had a blast, even if she seems to have caught a cold. o.O I'll go ahead and write up a quick report of our experience whenever the official report thread makes its debut.

And thanks a ton, Mustardman, Mrs. Mustardman, and Brandon, for letting me borrow and test out your gear. My order has been placed for a 1.1DL BB. ^.^ SUPER tough decision, and I'm still not totally sure it was the right one, but I figure I can't have gone wrong either way and well... there's always room for another hammock down the road, haha.

Another night on the ground for Hannah has, I think, convinced her hammocks are the way to sleep. She just can't do cold weather. Apparently, she's a very cold sleeper, and I'm a very hot sleeper. We had our 0° bags inside the 45° bags, and I had to strip down to my base layer, then slept outside the 0° bag, only protected by the loose-fitting 45° bag, lol. Hannah, on the other hand, was inside both bags with about a dozen of those hand warmers, and only THEN was she warm. Go figure.

Thanks again, y'all. It was an awesome place, and it was even more awesome to meet all you great people. Hammock Forums really is a special place, you guys are a great bunch of people.

What is everyone bringing for Sat night? Just trying to figure out what is missing. I was thinking of smoking up some buffalo wings. And the girlfriend is making a brownie/desert thing. I can also cook up some different vegetable options.

one more comment on this stuff..........."AWESOME"

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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~Bill Watterson

It was a pleasure meeting all of you. I only wish we could have stayed Saturday night but alas my wife didn't want to "hang" . I did take a few shots and will post a teaser of our drive. The link takes you to the rest of the shots.

Here's a shot from the top of Guanella pass on the way to the camp ground from I70 / Georgetown: